give us time to see -- >> reagan used to say stay the course. he only lost 26 seats by saying stay the course, hang with me. >> people thought it would be much, much worse. clinton says obama needs to acknowledge people's anger, including many people's disappointment in him. not run away from it. run into it. he said he was happy the other day on cnbc when president obama got confronted by that woman who said she's getting tired of defending him. she said o bobama needs to hear that. >> all that is about empathy. bill clinton was the empathizer in chief, barack obama, even with the question, he gave kind of a long answer. he's not the glad hander, hugging the women, kissing the babies. that's just not who he is. i don't know if bill clinton's be more emp thetic, it's not barack obama and i wonder if it wouldn't look a little inauthentic if he tried it. >> here's what we said to you, john. he all of this is hard stuff given the realities. we have a 9.6 employment rate. it seems as long as that's hanging up there, the rest of this is trying to cut